couple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (一) 对， 双； 夫妇v. 连接， 结合，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent matter ejected from holes pierced around the muzzle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I cannot see how that applies to a couple of boys playing together."
-- "I liked her all right, for a couple of days," said Gerald.
-- "Look at the young couple in front," said Gudrun calmly.
-- The two girls stood in the road and laughed till the tears ran down their faces, as they caught sight again of the shy, unworldly couple of their parents going on ahead.
-- "Bring a couple of sandwiches and a syphon," he said to the man, "and then don't trouble me any more tonight or let anybody else."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
-- As an instance, I remember Mr. Earnshaw once bought a couple of colts at the parish fair, and gave the lads each one.
-- Do you mark those two lines between your eyes; and those thick brows, that, instead of rising arched, sink in the middle; and that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil's spies?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys, that Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum, and saying 'First Boy!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills, about a couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog.
-- The Hispaniola was laid a couple of points nearer the wind and now sailed a course that would just clear the island on the east.
-- Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets him I could always recognize while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stride-legs upon the palisade.
-- "If that doctor was aboard," he said, "I'd be right enough in a couple of turns, but I don't have no manner of luck, you see, and that's what's the matter with me.
-- We laid her head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands; and as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it.
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